Healthy News May 2020
Patients often ask how long they must visit for chiropractic care at Rosenberg Wellness Center. In the end, their relief determines this. For some the end of care is decided together, patient and the New York City chiropractor. For others, when the pain is better, they quit coming. The patients decide for themselves. And when there’s no pain, it seems normal to quit coming. However, there may be a special consideration: If back pain is bothersome and prevents you from doing what you want to do, receiving chiropractic care on a regular basis (sometimes referred to as “maintenance care”) whether you are hurting or not is beneficial. In a randomized control trial of 319 such patients, maintenance care dropped the number of painful day in acute episodes and improved the timespan of pain-free days for patients with recurrent and persistent low back pain. (1) Back pain is not usually cured. It’s like a bruise on an apple. It will not just disappear. The bruise is now a more vulnerable part of the apple. With back pain, the no-pain period is surely welcome, and continued chiropractic care via a New York City chiropractic treatment plan set together can only help prevent more and/or more painful back pain occurrences. Some patients seek maintenance care after a few episodes of New York City back pain. Some schedule right away to avoid waiting for the pain and having to begin again. Whichever patient type you are, Rosenberg Wellness Center is the New York City chiropractic care partner for you!
New York City CHIROPRACTIC TIP OF THE MONTH: Exercise Benefits Before Back Surgery and for Non-Specific Low Back Pain
A 16-week study of supervised resistance training with variable low, moderate and high intensity exercise during a week time frame benefitted patients with persistent non-specific low back pain. How? By improving pain, daily function and disability, energy level, muscle strength, sleep, and perception of physical activity as helpful. (2) Those are encouraging outcomes! Sadly, in the year before back surgery, only 34.8% of back pain patients had physical therapy (PT), 34.1% experienced at least one PT visit with exercise, and only 14.6% had a minimum of 6 exercise therapy visits. 84.4% received at least one opioid prescription fill with a mean of 6.1 unique fills each. (3) Conservative, non-drug care combining spinal manipulation and exercise are worthwhile pre-back surgery efforts. Rosenberg Wellness Center is prepared to do this with you!
Listen to this PODCAST with chiropractic back pain specialist, James Cox DC DACBR, developer of the Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management, and a PODCAST with spine surgeon, David Hanscome, MD, on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as they present the conservative approach to managing New York City back pain.
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Arrange your next New York City chiropractic appointment now with Rosenberg Wellness Center for non-drug and non-surgical management of your back pain. Rosenberg Wellness Center is your spine care and back pain management partner!